I Became the Most Popular Character by Acting as a Villain in the Manga

Chapter 5

It was said that in the early days of the appearance of special abilities, when special ability users did not yet know they could eat mutated species, there were horrifying incidents of special ability users hunting and devouring each other.

But after the initial chaos, as long as a special ability user still possessed a shred of humanity, they would not engage in cannibalism, and would only eat mutated species. Those who still ate other special ability users would be arrested by the SAIDB, and depending on the severity of the case, it would be decided whether they received a prison sentence or the death penalty.

Of course, Bai Xuechao also didn't eat/people.

But the lure-pheromone had a strange and domineering mechanism. Regardless of what a special ability user's lure-pheromone smelled like, it would make special ability users of different alimentary types feel that it smelled very fragrant and delicious.

To put it simply, one would develop an appetite after smelling the lure-pheromone of a special ability user with a different alimentary type.

If one was full, they wouldn't feel much, but for someone like Bai Xuechao, who had barely eaten all day, smelling it was simply psychological torture. After all, standing in front of me was a living human being, not a sweet and delicious little bread that I could just take a bite of when hungry.

What was even more unbearable was that special ability users couldn't feel full from eating ordinary human food; they had to eat mutated species.

Bai Xuechao sat on the low wall at the edge, watching Jiang Yunyi walk towards me.

A special ability user could only self-adjust the concentration of their emitted lure-pheromone. The scent could be made very faint, but it couldn't be completely restrained. It required the aid of a drug, which had only begun to circulate in the underground exchange in the past two years, to be completely suppressed.

At this moment, the scent on Jiang Yunyi was very strong. It was definitely intentional.

The Dark Organization was not short of this kind of drug. The special ability users in the organization responsible for assassinations had to take it before missions, otherwise they would expose themselves due to the scent of their lure-pheromone.

To what extent was this drug popular among special ability users? Even in the hospital room where Bai Xuechao was recuperating, a bottle was placed in the bedside table.

I had to know, he basically lived in the hospital on a daily basis, and for the past few months, he hadn't even left the hospital. Among the doctors and nurses here, apart from one healing-type special ability user doctor, the rest were ordinary people who couldn't smell the lure-pheromone. Therefore, he almost never needed to take this, but he still prepared a bottle just in case.

Oh, I got it. So that was the idea.

Jiang Yunyi wanted to use this insidious and malicious method to force him back to the hospital room. He didn't need to take it, but he could bring Jiang Yunyi back to the room to take it, and that way, he would also go back to the room.

Too malicious, too malicious, but he would hold on.

Bai Xuechao's four canine teeth quietly sharpened inside his mouth. He thought about whether he should just bite Jiang Yunyi to scare him. However, watching Jiang Yunyi get closer and closer, Bai Xuechao still felt he couldn't bring himself to do it, and the sharp parts of his canines slowly retracted.

Jiang Yunyi seemed to know about Bai Xuechao's little covert action just now. He curved his lips into a light smile and stopped his steps at a distance of just over a meter from Bai Xuechao.

His refined and elegant handsome face wore a gentle smile, as if he had a very good temper. The pair of dark golden eyes behind the lenses gazed at Bai Xuechao, his voice gentle and mellow, with a hint of helplessness in his tone as he spoke: “Why are you using this trick again?”

“Because this trick works well.” Bai Xuechao's gaze fell on his pajamas. He propped up his cheek with one hand, his elbow resting on his crossed leg.

“Mm, it certainly works well.” Jiang Yunyi wasn't annoyed in the slightest, the gentle smile seemed as if it were welded to his face. He slightly opened his arms, as if showing Bai Xuechao the set of blue silk pajamas he was wearing, and smiled, “Look, I rushed over without even changing my clothes. Are you satisfied?”

Bai Xuechao continued to stare at the pajamas, and said lazily: “Very satisfied.”

After speaking, he couldn't help but cough a few times.

“If you're satisfied, then stop throwing a childish tantrum.” Jiang Yunyi extended a hand towards him, seemingly waiting for him to take it. His dark golden eyes were full of gentleness as he persuaded in a soft voice, “Let's go back to the room first. It's cold here, you've already started coughing, you must have caught a chill.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Xuechao lowered his eyelashes and was quiet for a few seconds, before finally speaking in a cold and hard tone: “I'm not cold.”

Perhaps because he had just coughed, his voice was a little hoarse, with a slight rasp.

Jiang Yunyi was still smiling, his hand still extended and not withdrawn, enunciating clearly: “Are you really not cold? The wind on the rooftop is very cold, you want to go back.”

Hearing this, Bai Xuechao knitted his brows, then right in front of him, he raised his hands and forcefully plugged his ears, answering stiffly: “Not cold, I don't want to.”

At the same time, Xiao 6 was screaming in his mind: “Host, hold on! Don't listen to him talk!”

“Don't worry.” Bai Xuechao lowered his head, not looking at Jiang Yunyi, and replied to the anxious Xiao 6 in his mind, “When it comes to dealing with him, I have much more experience than you, and right now my special ability level is the same as his, he can't command me to do anything forcibly.”

“Oh my god, so this is how you two normally get along?” Xiao 6 quickly took a few quick-acting heart-saving pills made of code, patted its non-existent chest with its little code hands, and said nervously, “How can he use his special ability at the slightest disagreement, it's a good thing you held on!”

Bai Xuechao was just about to speak to Xiao 6 when he suddenly felt his chin being held by a large, warm hand, and lifted up with a slight force.

He snapped back to his senses.

He needed to concentrate to communicate with Xiao 6, and because he was too focused and had his head down not looking at Jiang Yunyi, he didn't notice Jiang Yunyi approaching until he was touched.

Jiang Yunyi stood in front of Bai Xuechao, taller than the sitting Bai Xuechao, and leaned down, bringing his face closer to Bai Xuechao's.

The dark golden eyes behind the lenses were getting closer and closer to Bai Xuechao.

Bai Xuechao quickly half-closed his eyelids, trying hard to adjust his line of sight to Jiang Yunyi's chin or Adam's apple.

At the same time, Xiao 6 was roaring loudly in Bai Xuechao's mind, madly testing the limits of voice cracking: “Don't look at his eyes! He's concealed part of his special ability! Don't look at his eyes! His eyes ah ah ah—!”

“...I know, Xiao 6, stop shouting.” Bai Xuechao's head was about to explode from Xiao 6's shouting. His chin was held by Jiang Yunyi's hand, unable to turn his head. To prevent eye contact, he simply closed his eyes, “Didn't you notice, from the moment Jiang Yunyi appeared on the rooftop, I haven't made eye contact with him once?”

Xiao 6 blinked its eyes: “Oh, so you knew!”

“I've known for a long time, after all, I've known him for over ten years.” Bai Xuechao said to Xiao 6, “Not only do I know that his eyes are also a medium for using his special ability, and even more powerful than his voice. I also know that his glasses have no prescription, they're just to block his eyes with the lenses, to avoid direct eye contact with people.”

Xiao 6 nodded repeatedly: “Yes! That's exactly what's written in his character profile!”

Bai Xuechao said: “I'm guessing he's about to carry me back to the room now.”

After speaking, he suddenly opened his eyes.

As expected, looking at the way Jiang Yunyi's hands were extended, he was probably just about to lift him up.

He could have continued the standoff, but it was unnecessary.

Bai Xuechao lowered the hands that were forcefully plugging his ears, his blood-red eyes stared at the ground, his tone stiff: “I've decided, this time, we'll give each other a way out.”

“Okay.” Jiang Yunyi compliantly withdrew his hands, stood in front of him, his smile still as gentle as a spring breeze.

Bai Xuechao's gaze stopped at the tip of Jiang Yunyi's nose, remaining vigilant and not looking any higher. His feigned surprise was very fake and pretentious, like a poetry recitation: “Oh dear, why did you come out without taking your medicine? You're really fumigating me to death, I hate drinking Da Hong Pao, I can't stand even a little bit of the smell.”

His tone, paired with his words, was passive-aggressive to the extreme.

“Is that so, I'm very sorry, I was in too much of a hurry when I came out and forgot to take it.” Jiang Yunyi seemed incapable of getting angry, smiling as he said, “Then I'll have to trouble you to take me to get my medicine. May I ask where I should go to take it?”

Bai Xuechao continued in a very fake and pretentious, recitation-like tone: “Uncle Jiang, of course it's my hospital room! There's a bottle in my bedside table.”

He deliberately put heavy emphasis on “Uncle Jiang”.

“...Am I that old?” Jiang Yunyi finally stopped smiling, and said helplessly, “You call Jing Chun sister, but I become uncle, even though Jing Chun is older than me.”

“Because beautiful women have special privileges with me, okay.” Bai Xuechao's expression returned to being blank in a second, as he said with some disdain, “You're almost a full zodiac cycle older than me, what's wrong with me calling you uncle?”

After he finished speaking, he coughed a few more times, feeling his throat was a little uncomfortable, and cleared his throat again.

“Fine, if you insist on calling me that.” Jiang Yunyi's expression was calm, as if he really didn't care anymore, yet what he said was, “It's time to go back to the room and rest now, you've already caught a cold. As for the matter you wanted to talk to me about, you can bring it up in two weeks.”

Bai Xuechao immediately changed his tune: “I think calling you brother is not unacceptable either.”

Jiang Yunyi revealed a smile, like a victor.

Xiao 6 couldn't help but let out a “pfft” of laughter.

Bai Xuechao said to it forcefully: “This is called a great man knows when to yield and when to stand firm!”

He thought about it, and felt that he couldn't just endure being laughed at, so he started to turn it back on Xiao 6: “Why do you think I'm so able to yield and stand firm? Isn't it so I can be discharged from the hospital sooner? If I don't get discharged, how can I go to D City? If I don't go to D City, how can I complete the main plot? How can you earn money? Tell me, who am I doing all this for?”

Xiao 6 was made dizzy by his non-stop stream of words, its code coiled into mosquito-coil eyes: “Me, me...?”

Bai Xuechao said in a firm tone: “Yes.”

“Wuwuwu, is it for me?” Xiao 6 shed tears of感動 code wide-noodle tears, “Host, so you're actually this good to me, wuwuwu I'm sorry, I shouldn't have laughed at you...”

Bai Xuechao said “mm”, satisfied: “It's good that you know.”

Xiao 6: QAQ For some reason, something doesn't feel quite right?

“Why are you spacing out again?” Jiang Yunyi asked.

Bai Xuechao needed to concentrate to talk to Xiao 6, so to others, it looked like he was spacing out.

He realized this as well, and thought to himself that he should try not to talk to Xiao 6 in front of others in the future.

Jiang Yunyi didn't seem to expect an answer from Bai Xuechao. Seeing Bai Xuechao had returned to his senses, his face resumed its gentle and warm spring-breeze-like smile, his voice gentle and mellow, he continued to say to Bai Xuechao: “Let's go, back to the room.”

Bai Xuechao glanced at Jiang Yunyi with a little vigilance.

He had been tricked before when walking in front of Jiang Yunyi. At that time, Jiang Yunyi had called him from behind, and when he turned his head, he met that pair of dark golden eyes.

Once bitten by a snake, one fears a well rope for ten years. What's more, this wasn't a well rope, it was the very snake that bit him back then.

He stood still and said: “You walk in front.”

“No problem.” Jiang Yunyi unhesitatingly lifted his foot and walked ahead, but said as he walked, “I advise you not to think about attacking me with your special ability. Your physical condition is still very weak, it's not worth triggering the side effects of your special ability again.”

　　They couldn't even maintain brotherly love and respect for a minute.

　　Xiao 6: Do they have even a shred of trust in each other?